Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03 - Page 186

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 11-26-2003, 10:57 AM

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Originally posted by dtb
I am having trouble finding those green rubber muck boots (I think they're called Wellington boots, but I don't think that's the brand name, I think it's just descriptive -- but I'm not sure). You wouldn't think they'd be so hard to find, but, alas, I can't find them.

Does anyone know a brand name, so I can do a search on google or ebay or something? The only boots I've been able to find are overly heavy-duty with steel reinforced toes and shit. Like for firemen. I don't need those - -just the plain old rubber ones for walking around in pastures when it's really muddy.

I made the mistake recently of walking in a muddy pasture with those "closed clog" type shoes. When I went to take a step, my shoe got stuck in the mud, and my foot came flying out and landed in a squishy pond of mud. As I turned around to retrieve my shoe, my other foot came out of its shoe, so I was standing ankle deep in sock feet in a veritable swamp of mud -- undoubtedly with a little horse poo thrown in, but I'm not prepared to think about that yet. Anyway, that's an experience I'd rather not repeat, so please, people, help a gal out!

I know Thomas Pink makes wellingtons. I'm buying a pair for the GF for X-mas. I think they're $125 or so. Check British companies since wellingtons are a staple there.

Connect_the_Dots · 11-26-2003, 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
I loved him. Fabio took a bullet for his mom, yet was totally self-effacing and so grateful to the Fab 5 for a house-and-hair makeover. Just charming.

I thought so too. Here is a guy who literally would die for his mom. And unlike the nebbish (my new word) lawyer's mom, she was very approving and supporting of him--always smiling and saying what a good boy he was. He may not have been as successful as the lawyer, but he really had confidence and was comfortable in his own skin. c.f. the lawyer who was afraid to leave the bedroom because he was bald and was wearing semi-fashionable clothes. (could he possibly have asked any more people if they really liked his bald head?).

Hank Chinaski · 11-26-2003, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
c.f. the lawyer who was afraid to leave the bedroom because he was bald and was wearing semi-fashionable clothes. (could he possibly have asked any more people if they really liked his bald head?).

question for a friend.....if someone fits this description, does it at least count for something if they read a Fashion advice blog hoping for help?

purse junkie · 11-26-2003, 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
question for a friend.....if someone fits this description, does it at least count for something if they read a Fashion advice blog hoping for help?

Of course. One can't help being bald. Anything but a toupee or comb-over-and-ear-hair-explosion counts for something. See guys, it takes so little!

Connect_the_Dots · 11-26-2003, 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
See guys, it takes so little!

Low maintenence girls rock.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 11-26-2003, 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Of course. One can't help being bald. Anything but a toupee or comb-over-and-ear-hair-explosion counts for something. See guys, it takes so little!

I get the feeling this friend wants to know how you feel about headdresses...

ltl/fb · 11-26-2003, 11:46 AM

Hope all y'all have a great time sucking down turkey or ham or pork or tofurkey.

Edited to add or head, because it seems appropriate given my avatar and it's suggestive.

Tyrone Slothrop · 11-26-2003, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Richard Miller, I think. Time for Martindale.

Edit: there are 6 in NJ and 5 in NY; there seems only to be one who's the right age, and he's a double barreled Rutgers man.

Looks like he's at a small plaintiff-side securities litigation shop, from the little I can find. Interesting.

bilmore · 11-26-2003, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Low maintenence girls rock.

I saw that on MTV.

They're really getting over-specialized.

taxwonk · 11-26-2003, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
What's it going to cost me? I need to get the missus prepared.

Zegna will set you back about $1500-2200. You can do a Canali for about $900-1300. If you wait until the end-of-year sales, you can frequently find them about 30% off.

taxwonk · 11-26-2003, 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Formrer poster Circa Dragon once told me that Zegna was for men who want to look like "50 year old Italian guys"

Depending upon the location in Italy, this could be either a very good or a very, very bad thing.

Circa Dragon was a putz.

tmdiva · 11-26-2003, 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I know Thomas Pink makes wellingtons. I'm buying a pair for the GF for X-mas. I think they're $125 or so. Check British companies since wellingtons are a staple there.

Garnet Hill has really cute rubber boots:

Also, Real Simple just featured these boots from Urban Outfitters (not as cute, but MUCH cheaper):

They also have these patterned ones, for more money:

I'm thinking of picking up a pair of the cheap (solid-colored) ones myself.

tm

dtb · 11-26-2003, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
nebbish (my new word)

Your new word?

This reminds me of the time my sister (who is much, much younger than I -- and this was a while ago, but not so long ago that this wasn't a total howler) was telling me about this "new band" called the Grateful Dead...

ltl/fb · 11-26-2003, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Your new word?

This reminds me of the time my sister (who is much, much younger than I -- and this was a while ago) was telling me about this "new band" called the Grateful Dead...

We want to encourage people to expand their vocabularies . . . CtD is clearly insecure about its intelligence (check out the "brain" avatar) -- be nice!

Shape Shifter · 11-26-2003, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I know Thomas Pink makes wellingtons. I'm buying a pair for the GF for X-mas. I think they're $125 or so. Check British companies since wellingtons are a staple there.

How romantic.

So what's the worst holiday present anyone has givin to/received from a bf or gf? I ran out of time while shopping one year in college and just grabbed something as the stores were closing. So I gave my then-gf a soapdish. She opened and said, "Oh. A soapdish." Fortuantely for me, she knew that circumstances had prevented me from doing any shopping that year. And it was a very nice soapdish.